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According to B'Tselem, The Israeli Center for Human Rights, as of Sept. 2000, 9,449 Palestinians (of whom 2,148 were children) vs. 1,206 Israelis (of whom 134 were children) have been killed by the opposing nationality. A United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report records that of the 2,220 Palestinian victims of Israel's 2014 summer massacre in Gaza, 67 percent were civilians. During the same time period, 71 Israelis were killed, 9 percent of them civilians.
The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions estimates that since 1967, 48,488 Palestinian homes that have been demolished by Israel.
Lastly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency estimates, during the entire Palestinian vs. Israeli conflict, the death toll ratio at 192 to 1.
The U.S. is complicit in the occupation, oppression, ethnic cleansing and colonization of the Palestinian people. Over the last 60 years, the U.S. has supplied Israel with over a quarter trillion dollars in aid, with another $38 billion just approved by Obama.
It is past due for the U.S. to join the rest of the world and demand that Israel take meaningful steps towards recognizing sovereignty for the Palestinian people.
Israel is wealthy enough to continue on their current path towards pariah state status without any financial/military help from us.
Joshua Belka
Salt Lake City